One of my big projects for 2011 is working on a Coffee table book with my friend Lisbethe Giglio!   She has a great radio program on parenting and this Sunday is will be on air collecting quotes for the book.  If your child would like to have an opportunity to provide a quote for the book, please tune in this Sunday afternoon.  Here are all the details!

After lots of scheduling and rescheduling this photography session, we finally got the whole family down to San Juan Capistrano!  I always love getting generational portraits and this was a great opportunity to get lots of family combinations.   I have not seen the two younger gals for a few years and it was great to have fun and be silly with the two of them.  Thanks so much to all of you for being patient with Anna and me as we walked all over San Juan.  Enjoy!

After a soggy few weeks, I was more than excited to get down to the beach for a beautiful engagement session.  Jessica and Rus were up for anything and mother nature certainly delivered.  Not only did we get a spectacular sunset, but we also got some mind blowingly big waves in the background.  I always love this secluded spot, and I was so glad that the beach goers cleared out as the sun was going down.  As an added bonus, we saw a family of dolphins playing right off the shoreline.  I think this was a good sign of things to come for these two.  I am really looking forward to their wedding this summer in Newport Beach!  Enjoy!

You may recognize Jessica…..she has been a great addition to the Blue Sky’s team.  She has a fantastic, take charge attitude and is always stellar when it comes to making sure everything is handled perfectly.  Anna and I had the pleasure of photographing her engagement session to wonderful Andrew.  They both were so much fun and never got tired of saying “SASSY”!!!!  I really appreciated the fact that prior to their session, they got permission from several shops that let us shoot inside their stores.  A big thank you to the beautiful Chandelier shop, Summer Hill Ltd and Country Roads Antiques for letting us take over their stores for about 15 minutes.  And a big shout out to  Orange Candy Company for the final images!  You should all definitely head over to Orange if you are in need of some beautiful antiques, some sweet treats or a stunning chandelier!  I also want to thank Stephanie Werner for doing a great job on Jessica’s makeup!

Wow, I really love shooting in January and February.  As most of you know, these are the months that we book our creative sessions.  Typically we spend about an hour on a photography session, but for the months of January and February, we take our time and spend at least 2 hours on each session.  This give us plenty of time to walk around slowly at each location and find tons of great areas to shoot in.  It also makes every session very unique!

I met up with these super cute kiddos last Sunday morning in Newport Beach.  It was one of the first beautiful days of the year and perfect weather for a bright, colorful session.  Of course, we brought our super cute pettiskirts and other fun accessories to give the session a little pizazz.   I love how great both of these kids were at giving me the pouty model face that I so love!  Thanks so much Heather for getting up bright and early!  Enjoy!